Sentences with phrase «time government reform»

The second public hearing held by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's commission to probe public corruption featured testimony from long time government reform groups.

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Giving the timing of the next general election, this means making tax reform an agenda item for the government's second mandate.

«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

It's unclear how well the accord and government reforms will be implemented because it's not the first time promises have been made and Bangladesh's reputation for corruption is poor.

«Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion,» said Harper, who was at the time constitutional affairs critic for Reform.

Marc Lee, economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a progressive Vancouver think tank, says that government action on the reforms suggested by labour will be hampered by ideological objections to running deficits in bad times.

Speakers making the case for why it's time to listen to the experts and Canadians — and get down to business and develop a made - in - Canada proportional representation system include Hassan Yussuff, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Katelynn Northam, electoral reform campaign lead at Leadnow, Farhat Rehman of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women and Annie Bérubé, director of government relations at Équiterre.

At the time of writing, the Greek government and its creditors were trying to hammer out a «cash - for - reform» deal, amid this month's deadlines for Greece to repay International Monetary Fund loans.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- Greece's left - led government submitted to Parliament late Wednesday a new package of creditor - demanded tax hikes and reforms worth 1.8 billion euros ($ 2 billion), which it hopes to have approved by lawmakers in time for a meeting of European officials next week.

That would buy the Canadian government time to see what emerges from the United States before adopting major tax reform.

During her time at KPMG, Jennifer advised some of Australia's major corporations on climate change and sustainability matters, and provided advice to governments around Australia on major reform priorities.

In an uncharacteristically short meeting of the eurozone's finance ministers in Brussels, president of the eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem said the Greek government ought to stop throwing away time and begin enacting the reforms it requirements to complete its $ 7.2 bn in bail - out extension.

Pruitt's former security chief, whose time with Pruitt saw the EPA administrator provided with round - the - clock security and first - class flights in the name of security, appeared for an hourslong closed - door interview Wednesday with staff on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

It's very clear that the Greek government will just end up caving every time its creditors ask new reforms of this government, and just recently they came up with a deal for another round of funding to ensure the government is signed up to what the creditors demanded.

Bishop Mark will also express concern that the Government may «further undermine» marriage as it considers proposals to reform marriage registration for the first time since 1837, including a right of heterosexuals to register relationships as civil partnerships instead of marriages.

«With the Deputy Prime Minister himself now speaking out against this reform it is surely time that the Government put a stop to it.

The State of Maryland Constitution's first Declaration of Right still reads: [The People] have, at all times, the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their Form of Government in such manner as they may deem expedient.

If the Spanish government is granted that time it should invest it wisely in forwarding much needed structural reforms.

Steve Hilton, who has taken leave from Downing Street, was reported by the Sunday Times to have told students at California's Stanford University about the difficulties he faced getting the government's reform programme through the civil service.

«With the second consecutive on - time budget, major reforms to save taxpayer money, and a commitment to make New York's schools the best in the nation, Governor Cuomo is making New York's government work again, and making New York the comeback state,» Clinton said.

Totally abandoning cash will also result in problems with interest rates, since one could no longer keep cash at home and have to always be subjected to the bank's interest rate, unless governments introduce reforms regulating this but it will take time.

More than ever, now is the time for people to take control of their health against the backdrop of the government's health reforms.

At the same time, the number of jobs have not recovered to pre-recession levels, regulatory reform is being implemented at a sluggish pace and the state and city governments are increasingly relying on the revenue generated by Wall Street.

In accepting this responsibility on behalf of his colleagues, Speaker Heastie has stepped forward at an incredibly important time for New York as a whole, and I look forward to working with him to enact an aggressive agenda that ensures economic opportunity for all, improves and reforms our education system, ensures justice in perception and in reality, and restores trust in our government.»

Now is the time to enact reforms, the advocates say, because high - profile government corruption trials are scheduled to begin each of the first six months of the year.

The bill allowing all veterans to buy added pension time was vetoed by Cuomo last year because, notwithstanding a clause in the governor's Tier 6 pension reform, it failed to appropriate money to cover the projected state and local government share of the «past service» catch - up cost of the measure.

I believed at the time it was signed that the coalition deal wiped out support for electoral reform because it meant its core left wing rump, which felt it would ensure more left wing government in future, suddenly felt that wasn't true any more.

But a Labour spokesman said the Lords reform was another example of the Tory government putting things off to some uncertain time in the future.

«They will not be automatically converted onto the proposed new system and are effectively abandoned.Now is the time for action but yet again the government have kicked meaningful reform of the CSA into the long grass yet again,» he said.

Still, ambush as opposition has been most potent from seeming non-partisan players, who ought to be natural partners of a reform - minded government, in times of dire moral abyss.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

He said the government had taken so long to reform it because it had tried to make the CSA work - but it was now time to «turn over a new leaf».

NYPIRG issued its list of fundraisers at a time when good government groups are trying to pressure state lawmakers to pass ethics and campaign finance reforms.

The House on Thursday voted 211 - 186, on a party line vote, to table the privileged resolution that would have implicated the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee with violating «Clause 1 of Rule XXIII of the Code of Official Conduct, which states that «A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, Officer or Employee of the House shall behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.»

The speech fills a political vacuum and introduces a degree of gravitas to a government which has been tainted by the accusation of pursuing issues which don't matter in times of austerity, such as gay marriage and Lords Reform.

«We're talking about a freeze until January 2017 to give us time in government to get the reforms to the market through,» she insisted.

That conclusion, based on a full but complicated analysis of every possible measurement ¬ — complaints to Ombudsfolk, audit reports of all kinds, measurement of times and numbers, review of agency work and outsourcing — stands up against every possible reservation, such as the argument that costs and complaints would have risen even more had the reforms not been undertaken, or that social change made it necessary for government to run faster to stand still.

It stands to reason that NO ethics reform really has any teeth unless lawmakers and the governor are willing to have the big conversation, which is banning ALL outside income and making the Legislature full time — with a significant pay raise, as good government groups have proposed.

The vote in 2007 was itself an FPTP vote on the future of the Lords, rather than a preferential vote, and I remember it being couched in no uncertain terms at the time as 100 % being the obstreperous option that would result in Lords reform progressing the slowest; indeed, despite wide - ranging support in the Commons for 100 % elected Lords, the Labour government indeed made no progress whatsoever on such legislation.

David Cameron has called on the coalition to provide a «strong, decisive and united government» in the wake of acrimonious splits over Lords reform, warning that the public will not stand for «division and navel - gazing» at a time of social and economic insecurity.

Raising the salaries would have sent the wrong message and would not have helped our efforts to reform government at this time,» said Legislator Kevin Hardwick.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a New York state ethics panel over a story in the New York Times that says the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

He pledged that one of the most radical programmes of any government for a «long, long time» would achieve more on political reform, civil liberties and protecting pensioners than Labour did in 13 years, combined with «an impeccably Liberal approach» to the NHS, education and welfare reform.

During his 2018 State of the State speech on Wednesday in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo spent little time on government ethics reform, but did address at somewhat greater length his proposals to increase access to the ballot box and change state campaign finance law.

«If this is not a time where people need to realize that they need to stay woke, then I don't know what's going to be clearer for you,» McLaughlin said, remarking on the federal government's tax reform plans.

According to Jonathan, his government provided focused leadership through institutional reforms which he said impacted positively on the fundamentals for growth, especially in the last four years of his time in power.

A government reform group is considering filing a complaint with a state ethics panel over a report in the New York Times that the Assembly Speaker is under federal investigation for failing to disclose pay he received from a law firm.

The incumbent State Comptroller, Democrat Tom DiNapoli, a long time proponent of public campaign financing is not participating, and government reform groups say he is right to stay away from what they consider to be a deeply flawed program.

But now those in the Niger delta say the fragile peace is under strain as the Nigerian government takes time to carry out reforms ranging from the construction of a maritime university to cleaning up oil spills.

Good government reform groups say there's time for Cuomo and the legislature to work out a reform package very early in January, even before the budget presentation is due in the middle of the month.